As we mentioned in the previous post we’ve been working recently with NUIM and the Young Scientist Tanzania project. Well, it was an absolute delight on Tuesday to finally meet the Kibosho girls in Maynooth.

Kibosho girls with James from MissionV and Angela from NUIM

With a hectic schedule for the week they were on a whirlwind tour through the University and only had an hour to spend on MissionV training. But we were amazed and delighted by what they achieved in that time, developing a wonderful model of the coffee plantation at the foothills of Kilimanjaro where the project was based –

Coffee Plantation modelled in MissionV (with school and Kilimanjaro in background)

Indeed it was even more impressive to watch the girls narrate a screencast, with no scripting or rehearsal, demonstrating how MissionV could be used to illustrate their work –

That was on Tuesday. On Wednesday evening I was sitting down to my tea, watching the RTE News, when the first item on the BT Young Scientists & Technology Exhibition segment was….  all about the Kibosho girls!! And again they spoke so well about their project and what it is to be a scientist.

I can’t say how proud we were of them and how honoured we’ve been to be a small part of this project. And I’d like to pay special tribute to our collaborators at NUIM – Angela Rickard, Joe Clowry and Brendan Doggett. It was an absolute pleasure to work with them.